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PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
卷 24, 期 33, 页码 19753-19760出版社
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d2cp03312g
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [22073089, 22033007]
- Anhui Initiative in Quantum Information Technologies [AHY090200]
- CAS Project for Young Scientists in Basic Research [YSBR-005]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [WK2060000017]
- UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship program [MR/S016023/1]
- EPSRC
Molecular energy transfer and reactions at solid surfaces depend on the molecular orientation relative to the surface. This study investigates the stereodynamics of adiabatic and nonadiabatic energy transfer via molecular dynamics simulations of NO scattering from Au(111) surface. The results demonstrate the importance of adiabatic anisotropic interactions in steering molecules into more attractive orientations for significant energy transfer.
Molecular energy transfer and reactions at solid surfaces depend on the molecular orientation relative to the surface. While such steric effects have been largely understood in electronically adiabatic processes, the orientation-dependent energy transfer in NO scattering from Au(111) was complicated by electron-mediated nonadiabatic effects, thus lacking a clear interpretation and posing a great challenge for theories. Herein, we investigate the stereodynamics of adiabatic and nonadiabatic energy transfer via molecular dynamics simulations of NO(v = 3) scattering from Au(111) using realistic initial orientation distributions based on accurate neural network fitted adiabatic potential energy surface and electronic friction tensor. Our results reproduce the observed stronger vibrational relaxation for N-first orientation and enhanced rotational rainbow for O-first orientation, and demonstrate how adiabatic anisotropic interactions steer molecules into the more attractive N-first orientation to experience more significant energy transfer. Remaining disagreements with experiment suggest the direction for further developments of nonadiabatic theories for gas-surface scattering.
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